Khakhas

Khakhas (खखास) Khakha (खखा) is a gotra of Jats.

History

H.A. Rose writes about Khakha (खखा), said to be a not uncommon epithet to apply to any petty Khatri trader. The Khakhas are in fact Khatris converted to Islam, and are found in greatest numbers in the Kashmir hills, lying along the left bank of tho Jhelum; whence a few have made their way in to Hazara and Rawalpindi. Sir George Campbell called them "a curiously handsome people.

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Buddha Prakash writes....Ashoka’s grandfather had carried his empire to the natural frontier of the Hindukush, and he thought of reducing the Khasa tribes in the south and west of Kashmira. It appears that he brought to subjection the ancestors of the modern Khakha tribe of the Vitasta Valley below Kashmira and the neighbouring hills. In this campaign also the soldiers of the Panjab must have distinguished themselves.

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